Consider the following statements:
- 1.The Nuclear Security Summits are periodically held under the aegis of the United Nations.
- 2.The International Panel on Fissile Materials is an organ of International Atomic Energy Agency.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Answer & explanation
Answer: (d) Neither 1 nor 2
The Nuclear Security Summits were a US-initiated series of leaders' meetings (2010–2016), not a UN process, and the International Panel on Fissile Materials is an independent group of experts, not part of the IAEA. Both statements are wrong.
- ✗ 1. The summit process was announced by US President Barack Obama in April 2009. Four summits were held (Washington 2010, Seoul 2012, The Hague 2014, Washington 2016), hosted by those countries, not by the UN.
- ✗ 2. The IPFM was founded in January 2006 as an independent panel of experts drawn from countries with and without nuclear weapons; it studies fissile material policy and is not part of the IAEA.
Remember · Nuclear Security Summits: Obama's initiative, four summits 2010–2016, outside the UN. IPFM (2006): independent expert panel on fissile material, not an IAEA body.
Sources
- Arms Control Association: The Nuclear Security Summit at a Glance ↗ · reference work “The nuclear security summit initiative was announced in an April 2009 speech by U.S. President Barack Obama, in which he pledged to hold a global summit on nuclear security in 2010 … There were four summits in total: in Washington, D.C. in 2010 , Seoul, South Korea in 2012 , the Hague, Netherlands in 2014 and Washington, D.C. again in 2016.”
- The White House (archived), 1 April 2016: Nuclear Security Summit 2016 Communiqué ↗ “We, the leaders, gathered in Washington, D.C. on the first day of April, 2016 on the occasion of the fourth Nuclear Security Summit”
- International Panel on Fissile Materials: About IPFM ↗ · reference work “The International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM) was founded in January 2006 and is an independent group of arms-control and nonproliferation experts from both nuclear weapon and non-nuclear weapon states.”
Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2017, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·